Famous Quotes & Sayings

Izaak Walton

If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.

Izaak Walton

You cannot lose what you never had.

Isaac Asimov

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

Isaac Asimov

When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.

Pat Conroy

Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.

Julia Sawalha

I love to travel with my family or my two best friends because I completely trust them. I forced my two best friends into learning to scuba dive with me in Sri Lanka - it was amazing but also hideous because we were learning in very difficult seas.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

I unpetalled you, like a rose, to see your soul, and I didn't see it. But everything around -horizons of land and of seas-, everything, out to the infinite, was filled with a fragrance, enormous and alive.

Paul Revere

1 if by land, 2 if by sea.

Leon Panetta

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

Lauren Oliver

The salt blowing off the sea makes the air feel textured and heavy.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

Naguib Mahfouz

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

Miyamoto Musashi

Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.

R. C. Sproul

God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive.

Publilius Syrus

They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.

Publilius Syrus

Any one can hold the helm when the seas are calm.

Nelson Mandela

That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why she bestowed this particular name upon me I have no idea. Perhaps it had something to do with the great British sea captain Lord Nelson, but that would be only a guess.

Noam Chomsky

A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the pirate replied, and continued: “Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor.

John Armstrong

He knows enough, the mariner, who knows Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil, What signs portend the storm: to subtler minds He leaves to scan, from what mysterious cause Charybdis rages in the Ionian wave; Whence those impetuous currents in the main Which neither oar nor sail can stem; and why The roughening deep expects the storm, as sure As red Orion mounts the shrouded heaven.

Konrad Zuse

The belief in a certain idea gives to the researcher the support for his work. Without this belief he would be lost in a sea of doubts and insufficiently verified proofs.

Oscar Levant

My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.

Oliver Goldsmith

Nobody with me at sea but myself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

Manute Bol

I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.

Marc Almond

If you were born by the sea, there's always a magnet that draws you back there.

Kid Rock

I've been to your mountains, I've been to your sea-side, and everywhere I went somebody's wanted a free ride.

Pablo Picasso

Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.

Paul Cayard

The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.

Lucretius

Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.

Lucretius

It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.

Lucretius

Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

Louis L'Amour

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

Mark Twain

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen.